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I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).
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Microbiology:
It's a new flu season: do you cough safely?
Category: Science education
Do you cough safely?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:03 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Injection, Collection, and Sex
Category: DIY biology
Bacteria and viruses creating new life forms in the wild.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:40 AM • 0 Comments •
Hey kids, want to sequence a bacterial genome?
Category: Genomics
Cofactor genomics will sequence genomes for school projects
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:00 PM • 4 Comments •
Looking for a summer internship? Like environmental microbiology?
Category: Microbiology
A summer undergraduate research in Las Vegas is a good bet.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:18 PM • 1 Comments •
How well do you know your bacteria?
Category: Microbiology
Are you as smart as a sixth grader?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:00 AM • 6 Comments •
What's that taste?
Category: Microbiology
This wasn't in the lab, but it was an accident, and it was funny later on. Normally, I wouldn't think twice about storing bacterial cultures in a refrigerator. After all,...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:30 AM • 4 Comments •
The Seattle Times puts MRSA database on-line and gets results from the state
Category: Microbiology
Search the Seattle Times MRSA database before going to the hospital
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:33 AM • 2 Comments •
The Seattle Times takes on hospital-acquired MRSA
Category: Microbiology
Hospital cases of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have risen 33-fold during the past ten years in Washington state, yet our hospitals fail to identify or track cases in a...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:25 PM • 5 Comments •
Using spam to break bad news
Category: Humor
I probably shouldn't find this amusing, but... Back a few years ago, a friend of mine worked at a biotech company in Seattle that had large windows looking out onto...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:15 AM • 1 Comments •
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